Summary
Eric Xiao is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 10 years of experience building developer and consumer-facing products, leading teams, and launching startups. He has driven product and GTM work at AI infrastructure leader Arize AI, scaled hiring systems as VP of Product at Fountain handling 100M+ applicants, and led product efforts at Facebook Reality Labs and acquired companies in fleet management and advertising. Eric now runs Bloom, an AI-first stock-picking startup, teaches practical AI product courses at Maven, and has a track record of founding product agencies and campus marketplaces—revealing a blend of hands-on execution, research-driven product sense, and customer-first storytelling. Trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, he pairs engineering depth with empirical product experiments and an uncommon habit of turning academic teaching into real-world product launches.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering